The Intel Ireland campus located at Collinstown Industrial Park, Leixlip, County Kildare, is one of Intel's largest manufacturing sites, and the largest outside the United States employing approximately 5,000 people.

Intel located the first technology campus in Ireland in 1989, and production of motherboards and systems commenced in the following year.

Since then, Intel has invested over €6 billion in turning the 360-acre former stud farm into the most technologically advanced industrial location in Europe.

Our Leixlip campus is the location of four semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities. Fab 10 and Fab 14 operate jointly as Ireland Fab Operations (IFO), and Fab 24 and Fab 24-2 operate jointly as Fab 24.

IFO is critical to the Intel Fab network and has the highest product mix and most complex operations of Intel worldwide. IFO produces both flash memory and logic devices. It is currently equipped to run over 65 individual products; three times that of any other Intel 200mm facility worldwide.

The Fab 24 facility processes 300mm wafers on both 90- and 65-nanometer process technologies. It is one of Intel's most technologically advanced, high-volume manufacturing plants in the world. These facilities produce the latest generation silicon microprocessors that power platforms and technology advancements which are essential to the way we learn, live and work today.

The Leixlip campus is also home to other Intel businesses including the Intel® Innovation Centre. The centre has global responsibility to research and develop innovative leading-edge IT solutions and technology. It is at the forefront of demonstrating how Information Technology (IT) and Intel products can continue to deliver new competitive advantage. The centre, in partnership with the National University of Maynooth, has set up the Innovation Value Institute, a multi-disciplinary research and education institute, which was designed to help achieve sustainable economic value from IT and quantify and understand the true business value of strategic IT investments.

Intel announced in January 2009, at the European Parliament, the creation of Intel® Labs Europe, with the goal of expanding the scope of its European R&D activities. Intel® Labs Europe will coordinate innovation activity and future investments against an innovation agenda. The focus will be on enabling a digital Europe, which is aligned with the European Union's renewed Lisbon Strategy and the i2010 strategic initiative. A focused research agenda will include areas such as advanced microprocessor research, high performance computing, enterprise solutions and green computing.

The Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL) Centre is located at the Leixlip campus and is part of our Digital Health initiative. TRIL brings together world-class industry and academic experts who are inventing and testing new technologies with older people and their families to support them in continuing to live healthy and independent lives.

Many other Intel employees are involved in research and development. Intel funds over 50 PhD's and works closely with the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN) at the Trinity College Dublin and the Tyndall National Institute in Cork.

Intel Ireland has an excellent environmental management track record. Our Environmental Management System is accredited to the ISO 14001 quality standard. We have also recently been accredited with the IS 393 Energy Management standard.

Intel strives to be a trusted, leading corporate citizen. Corporate responsibility at Intel Ireland reflects our deep respect for people and for the communities around us. This means listening to, learning from, and communicating openly with all of our stakeholders. It's simply how we do business.